The Importance of Python in the Digital Library

Python wasn't even on my radar until like 2000. So this was a project for a digital library. We were imagining building a digital library system where you had handles that were immutable and referenced digital assets in the internet. And we were building these little software agents that would travel from machine to machine. They'd sort of go say, Oh, I need a resource over on that machine. And they kind of pickle themselves up, transfer over to another place, reconstitute themselves and start executing over there.